Another of my cars

Now this particular make of car is something which I would not have imagine myself buying but buy it I did. It is a 1991 Nisan Figaro. Nissan are renown for making quirky looking cars and this was no exception. It was designed to resemble a 1960's car with a european look (Italian) and was also primarily aimed at the Japanese female driver. At the time of manufacture, Japan was not allowed to import these into the UK at that time and it was only in comparatively recent times that these were allowed into the UK. As Japan drives on the same side of the road as the UK then these little cars were an ideal car to be imported into the uk with very minor mods to make the road legal (rear fog lights for example). 

OK, so that was the preamble and so why should I buy one?  Well I could see that these little cars had a kind of quirkiness about them and there were quite a few well known celebs buying them. I looked at the prices over the last 6 months and they were climbing rapidly, I could see that this could be possibly the only car I could own and drive to work with it not only not losing money every mile I drove it but instead made money. This was looking to being a good, short term investment if nothing else.

And so I hunted around for one with all the prerequisites I wanted - rust free, Emerald Green, low milage, no accident damage and I found one not to far away from where I live. I ended up buying this and drove it home the following week. I owned this Figaro for about two and a half years and I have to say that little car gave both me and my wife so much fun. I spent many hours searching for the many incredibly rare optional extras that would have been available to the original Japanese owners back in 1991 and I managed to find 99% of all the accessories including genuine lace seat back covers, parking sticks and probably the rarest item of all was the rear luggage rack which I also managed to get. You will be able to see most of the accessories in the following photos.

Genuine original rear luggage rack

All leather cream interior which I also added wood veneer trim

She won Car of the Year and Best of Show in 2009

Me looking very smug showing off my trophies that we had just won

Genuine lace seat covers

Oh and I managed to sell the car after two and half year later for double the price I paid for it so yes, it was a very good investment - how many daily driver cars could do that?